indeed. and right. okay. a >> indeed. and right. okay. a labour's illegal migrant crackdown. the government is setting out plans to tackle illegal migration, including new specialist officers and expanding current removal centres. will it work? we'll have the latest on that story for you. >> and people are still hoping for a miracle. divers begin day three of the search for the capsized superyacht with six people still missing. tech tycoon mike lynch is one of those. his former business partner, david tabizel spoke to gb news yesterday, but mike stands out to me as a champion of free will and really should be celebrated in this country as a leading entrepreneur and as a as a freedom fighter in a way. >> and the chancellor's getting tough as winter fuel payments are scrapped. this winter. rachel reeves is set to raise taxes , cut spending and get taxes, cut spending and get tough on benefits to turn that economy around. >> meanwhile, a new poll shows

that almost 70% of you are on board with the government's plan to make britain a clean energy powerhouse. we'll delve into the numbers to work out if you understand what that means. yeah, because we don't. >> meanwhile, stateside, barack and michelle obama rally around kamala harris at the democratic national convention. take a listen. >> we have a chance to elect someone who has spent her entire life trying to give people the same chances america gave her. >> and gentlemen, if you're looking for love, we're going to reveal the top ten least attractive hobbies that you can do according to women. apparently, you might be surprised . surprised. >> to breathing. i wonder, because sometimes. sometimes that can be slightly irritating. >> that's when you know the relationship is over. yes, okay.

>> but this isn't about what we think. it's about what you think. it's about what you think. so send your views and post your comments by visiting. really simple gbnews.com/yoursay. but first, it's the news headlines with the very lovely tatiana sanchez . very lovely tatiana sanchez. >> bev turner thank you very much and good morning. the top stories , the search for six stories, the search for six people that rescuers fear are trapped inside a luxury yacht that sank in a storm off the coast of sicily has now entered its third day. an expert says rescue teams could be listening out for a timed banging noise. the maritime diving and wreckage expert also warned the teams would face a big choice between salvaging the wreck or rescuing bodies, as their efforts intensify . the italian coast intensify. the italian coast guard hasn't ruled out the possibility that those missing, including technology tycoon mike lynch and his 18 year old daughter hannah may still be alive, with experts suggesting air pockets could have formed as the yacht sank . the italian

the yacht sank. the italian coastguard, of course, hasn't ruled out the possibility that they may still be alive as i say, a new video was released yesterday showing the moment the superyacht disappeared from view dunng superyacht disappeared from view during the storm. the home office has outlined plans to tackle illegal immigration, including deploying 100 new intelligence officers to target people smuggling gangs. the home secretary has announced. the new measures to boost britain's security to and target, dismantle and disrupt organised immigration crime networks. yvette cooper has also outlined the government has new plans for the government has new plans for the next six months to achieve the next six months to achieve the highest rate of removals of those who don't have the right to be in the uk, including failed asylum seekers. as part of its plan, the government says it will reopen immigration removal centres in both hampshire and oxfordshire, adding 290 beds. the conservatives have said labour were not serious about tackling the people smugglers or stopping the people smugglers or stopping the boats . official figures show

the boats. official figures show the boats. official figures show the rising cost of public services and benefits caused the government borrowing last month to surge on the year before borrowing hit £51 billion last month, around £18 billion more than in july. last year. the increase means borrowing has hit its highest level for the month since 2021. the ons also revealed the uk's national debt remained at its highest level since the early 1960s, and romanian police have raided the home of internet personality andrew tate as part of a new investigation into crimes including human trafficking and money laundering. andrew tate has been accused of having formed an organised criminal network in the early 2021, in romania and in britain , along romania and in britain, along with his brother tristan. they have both denied the charges and a trial date hasn't yet been set. prosecutors allege that 37 year old tate, whose 36 year old brother and two women set up a criminal organisation and

sexually exploited several victims. and those are the latest gb news headlines. for now, i'm tatiana sanchez. more from me in half an hour for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone , sign up to news your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code, or go to gbnews.com >> forward slash alerts . >> forward slash alerts. >> forward slash alerts. >> good morning. this is britain's newsroom live across the uk on gb news with me bev turner and dawn neesom who is here? while andrew pierce takes a well—earned holiday. >> indeed. and we've we've done that. if you missed yesterday's show we both turned up looking like virgin air hostesses today we're in completely different colours, but blue and green should never be seen except as a sign of madness. bev and andrew well, that could be the sign of things to come, couldn't it? >> this morning, right. we're talking about yvette cooper's plans, okay? she's come out swinging on immigration. she claims that the government are going to deport 14,000 migrants

by the end of 2024. she's setting out new measures today to crack down on illegal migration. and as she says , migration. and as she says, smash those criminal gangs. but the problem with this, right is that the immigration centres that the immigration centres thatis that the immigration centres that is part of this plan, where they're going to house all the migrants, get them out of the hotel, save us all money. >> sounds brilliant. the conservatives had that very idea. yeah. and they were branded inhumane. >> i can't see a huge amount different here. she's. she is going to recruit 100 new specialist intelligence officers and investigation officers. they want to increase the capacity at immigration removal centres and in the next six months, labour want to achieve the highest rate of removals of those with no right to be here, including failed asylum seekers, for five years. >> but can they do it? that's the question. >> very hard to say. i hope the question. >> very hard to say . i hope so, >> very hard to say. i hope so, but i have to say, if you're deporting 14,000 migrants, that is a tiny, tiny number. it's not really going to make any

difference in terms of the overall. >> we actually don't even know how many are here in any case. >> correct. and really, i think also most people i think if you ask them would say that they're, they're concerns about the changing landscape and the high streets and perhaps increasing crime, etcetera, would be because actually about legal migration as much as it is illegal migration, if we've got net 750,000 a year, sending away 14,000 people who shouldn't be here, is that really going to make a difference to you? let us know. gbnews.com/yoursay >> but now joining us now to delve down into these figures and what yvette cooper plans actually mean and what difference they will make, if any is human rights lawyer david. hey david. good morning. thank you very much for joining us this morning. what do you make about yvette cooper's announcements today? >> good, good. good morning to you both. i think you know , as you both. i think you know, as you both. i think you know, as you said, it kind of it sounds very familiar, doesn't it? and, you know, it's she's certainly saying the right things , but saying the right things, but some of the plans that she's

mentioned, i think will impart help, but there's no quick fixes to this. this this is a very, you know, the system is completely broken and it will not have gimmicks. and i'm not saying these are gimmicks, but proper things need to be put in place. the work needs to be done. and you know, we're going to see the figures in my view, go to see the figures in my view, 9° up to see the figures in my view, go up and up until they come down. so it's going to get worse before it gets better because there's no quick fixes . and, you there's no quick fixes. and, you know, the border force that they're proposing and some of they're proposing and some of the steps they're proposing will work, but not in isolation. there needs to be more and more things done. and that's going to take time. if you employ more officers, more, more people to process the claims quicker, it takes time to see the results. and i think so we're probably going to be here every other week or every week . indeed, with week or every week. indeed, with numbers going up and up, particularly if the weather gets better. >> can i ask you about this story, david, as a human rights lawyer? a knife wielding asylum seeker. tragically, luckily, he

didn't lose his life, but he stabbed his solicitor, mohammed shoaib. he came to the office. so doing the job that you do, david and his client, stabbed him. he had a. he's gone now, he already had 11 previous convictions. he's gone back to prison now. and when he was in court, they said. he said that he he was accused of attempted murder. that actually on the boat over he'd lost his wife and his child had both drowned in in one of those inflatable boats . one of those inflatable boats. and so he has now gone to get 11 years in prison for this . in years in prison for this. in your experience, when you're deaung your experience, when you're dealing with people who have been through such horrendous and traumatic experiences, does it affect them in a way that can make them dangerous to be around? >> i think the short answer, i think, is yes. i mean, obviously it depends on each particular person, each client that you see. but, you know, when people come to the legal world, you

know, when people come to solicitors, you know, in general, they've gone through a harrowing experience or are looking at a harrowing experience coming up and they either experience is obviously people coming across the channel people coming across the channel, whatever reason they're coming for , that is an extremely coming for, that is an extremely harrowing, terrifying experience . harrowing, terrifying experience. and so that is going to have serious impacts on them in terms of, i think, not just physical health, but obviously mental health. and this is one area of that. but also, i think you've got to remember that there isn't a balance in check on the type of people that are coming. so there will just be some people coming that you can't blame their health or mental health for, for the terrible things they've done. there's other reasons they're doing that. so, you know, you're going to see cases like this and you'll see more of them . more of them. >> but while we've got you here, we're going to get our money's worth. this morning, a paedophile scoutmaster has just been handed a 12 month sentence, suspended for 18 months. while, as we know recently from last week, a middle aged woman was

given a 15 month jail sentence with no chance of an early release. this was linked to the riots. and i just can't. david can you make it make sense how a paedophile. convicted paedophile. convicted paedophile. and we're talking about very young children here gets a suspended 12 month sentences, but a one facebook post gets a middle aged woman. what? she said was stupid. not condoning that, but one facebook post gets her 15 months in prison straight away with no chance of an early release. david, can you just make it make sense for me, please? >> i don't i wish i could i mean, i think the problem that you've got with that to doom this morning is that our criminal justice system and the way that it works, it is also broken. you know, we have some fantastic judges. we equally have a number of very bad judges. now, i'm not saying this particularjudge, judges. now, i'm not saying this particular judge, who was recorder, which is the first step on the judiciary ladder, if you like, you know, is bad, but they have such a wide sentencing kind of scope that they can do.

and in these cases, when it comes to indecent images, and if you're looking at the production of them, they've got up to nine years custodial sentence that they can they can, put in place and obviously this, this individual managed to get away effectively with without a custodial sentence, and so, you know, obviously the judge will have looked in this case at various different reports, etc. and, you know , but it's and, you know, but it's certainly on the face of it, it seems, i think absurd . seems, i think absurd. >> and just on that particular issue as well , david, some >> and just on that particular issue as well, david, some some more news this morning that a pakistani web developer who has been, the trail back to who initially posted the misinformation about who the perpetrator of the southport stabbings might have been, it was a news spreading website, fake basically news. and he said that it was the 17 year old asylum seeker named ali al—shati that was the mistaken name that was posted. he's now been

arrested, what what is this? is this sort of unprecedented in a way that the law are tracing back an initial facebook post or in this case, a twitter post, i believe, to arrest somebody for that sort of misinformation because they are blaming him for the riots. is this new as far as you're concerned? >> i think it is. and it's oddly, it's something that when i was running the campaign for the dubai princess to help her, we were targeted with. so there's a lot of fake news websites in countries like pakistan and bangladesh that are paid by people in the west to put out fake news and do certain things . and, and at the time, things. and, and at the time, this was a few years ago. there was nothing we could do. i mean, i remember at the time i was accused of being some hamas kidnapper and terrorist and by this website, which was so absurd because it came onto google alerts, so i think, you know, it's on one hand, it's positive that these people in these types of countries that run these institutions , because run these institutions, because there's a big difference between

someone posting here something on facebook, and an actual website designed to spread hatred and fake news in a foreign country that's set up there to be outside of the laws. so i think there's positive elements, if that's what they're doing. and they're doing it well. but also there's obviously a great worry when we start literally policing and jailing people for social media posts. yeah >> david, just one final quick question. going back to the migration issue, we're already getting lots of people commentating on labour's plans. labour already saying that their initiatives are working and they have seen a full year on year on the number of boat crossings on the number of boat crossings on the channel. do you think that's a case of their initiatives working? or maybe because the weather difference, i certainly i don't think they can claim victory on that at this stage. >> it's too early. i mean, you know, when the number of people that get on a boat depends on how many people decide to go that day, how much you know, what the weather is like. so of course they're going to if they see a positive impact, they're

going to say, it's us. but i think that that is ridiculous. you know, it's going to take time. if you introduce a new police force, if you introduce, you know, new detention centres, new laws, etc. they haven't even even introduced new laws yet. it's going to take time to see the results in that. so i think it's better that they just get on, get the work done, put in the hard graft, as it were, and then we will see results from these things. but it's not going to be in a week or 2 or 3 months. it's going to take a long time. >> okay. great to see you, david. david. hey there. human rights lawyer. always absolutely fascinating. get in touch this morning. gbnews.com/yoursay wendy has said your human rights lawyer talks about horrific experiences with some migrants . experiences with some migrants. what about the horrific experiences of people here not having their needs met or british people should indeed right up next, we're being bombarded with new policies from the government. >> we'll explore how will they've landed with us, the people, the people that voted for them. you're with britain's newsroom. this is

gb news. hello and welcome back. now, new polling by yougov shows almost 70% of people support the government's clean energy plans. >> and perhaps shockingly, 28% of people are in favour of scrapping the winter fuel allowance payment for pensioners, >> right. okay, let's discuss this further with political and economic commentator jamie jenkins. >> hi, jamie. good to see you. right. this is this is a yougov poll. what do we know about it? let's start with the green energy policy. the government's great british energy as they're talking about it . this shows talking about it. this shows overwhelming support from the pubuc overwhelming support from the public for what labour are trying to do. >> yeah. i think, bev, when you're looking at, you know, when you ask questions to the pubuc when you ask questions to the public around clean energy, talks of cheaper bills , it's talks of cheaper bills, it's going to be popular, but i think you've got to look at it in the round in terms of what the kind of the government's trying to do. so keir starmer is in wales,

he's been in the us yesterday. he's here today with the welsh first minister trying to promote the great british energy policy that they've got coming forward . that they've got coming forward. but i think there's a few things when we talk about perhaps lower bills, some of the decisions of the previous government with the use of ofgem and killing the kind of introducing the price cap in 2019 that's had a detrimental effect on kind of household bills because it's kind of killed competition in the market. and i think what we've got to remember when we talk about government policy on energy is the reason bills are so high in the first place is successive governments over the past 40 years have kind of killed off, kind of what we've seen this big shift towards renewable energy. we've killed off a lot of our coal power fired stations, and we've relied more on importing energy from abroad. and that's a key part of why we've got this lack of energy security. so i think on the whole, when you ask the public, is it a good thing to have more domestic production? i think so the key question here, though, guys, is will wind and solar be a kind of solution to

all of that? if you look into countries like norway, they rely on hydropower, which is using reservoirs, which kind of work when the sun isn't shining and the wind is not blowing. i think we're putting probably too much reliance on solar and wind in our energy mix. when you've got the likes of china introducing kind of increasing their energy security by using more coal, maybe when i mean , you know, you maybe when i mean, you know, you know, using norway as a comparison as to how this might work. >> i mean, it's a completely different country. it's a much smaller population. it's got huge coastline, vast amounts of space and they build new reservoirs, none of which we have in this country now. >> totally, totally. and i think, like you say, they're putting a lot more reliance on kind of the wind and the solar. and we do know that when the kind of we got, we've had wind droughts in the uk in recent years where, you know, there's not enough wind blowing, obviously, during the evening, there's no energy being produced. we need less energy dunng produced. we need less energy during the evening. so that's one of the benefits there. but what happens then is when you've got kind of a wind drought, you have to rely on pumping more gas into the system. so we're not

heanng into the system. so we're not hearing enough from the labour government around nuclear energy. but as you know, it takes time for nuclear to come on board. and again , decisions on board. and again, decisions by previous governments. we had nick clegg when he was in partnership with david cameron, kind of opposing nuclear energy. which would it be online now? so governments have got to act to sort this out. but i think, you know, the reliance on just using solar and wind to fix our problems is probably a bit shortsighted. >> be more interested if someone had asked the question of how many, what percentage of people polled actually understood what this green energy, great british energy company was actually meant, i mean, i must confess, i keep asking government ministers and whenever we have them on the channel and whenever we have them on the channel, what does it actually mean? and they're very, very vague. >> yeah. and the thing is, we've already got companies in the uk who are increasing their reliance on using renewable energy. and i say nobody disagrees that renewable energy is a bad thing. of course it's a good thing , but is it going to good thing, but is it going to reduce the bills that we say is going to be the bills would be lower now if we hadn't had

previous governments blowing up our coal power stations. now we kind of need to move away from that in the long, long term. but when countries like china or india are increasing their use, it's, you know, we contribute very small amounts to the overall worldwide co2 emissions. so you've got to have a very balanced energy mix. and where's nuclear in this discussion. >> okay. all right. thank you jamie. good to see. do we want to ask him about the pensioners as well. can we ask you about this jamie about the fact that of course, there was a 28% of people in this country are in favour of, of scrapping the winter fuel allowance payment for pensioners . for pensioners. >> yeah. well, i think when you do a poll across the broad population, obviously many of the people across the population don't get that kind of benefit overall. so they'll be looking at it and you get the headlines and you have kind of very rich millionaire pensioners getting the winter fuel allowance. so we should scrap that. but but i think what kind of i don't sit nice with me is that we're scrapping the winter fuel allowance. when politicians in parliament get allowances for

second homes in terms of fuel as well. so, you know, there's a bit of double standards there. so it's not surprising that some people don't kind of will be happy with the scrapping. >> and a subsidised bar. jamie at the house of commons. to good see you as always. we are going to take a very quick break. but still to come, whether you play video games or you're a bird watcher, will tell you if that will affect your chances of finding yourself a girlfriend by by. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on gb news >> hello. very good morning to you. time for the latest forecast from the met office for gb news. fine at first today for many of us, but it is going to turn increasingly wet from the west. wettest in western scotland in fact, from mid—morning that persistent rain already setting in across western scotland starting to cloud over with outbreaks of rain moving into northern ireland by lunchtime and some spits and spots of rain across

western england, as well as wales generally clouding over through the midlands, the south and southeast, but staying dry here and relatively warm 2122 celsius or so. where further north and northwest, it's going to feel decidedly cool as the wind picks up and the rain sets in. and in fact, it's going to turn even wetter and windier into the evening with the most persistent and heaviest rain arriving by this stage. and as you can see, a marked contrast between western scotland, where it's going to be thoroughly 509931, it's going to be thoroughly soggy, and eastern scotland , soggy, and eastern scotland, where we've got some good rain shadow and so much drier here, northern ireland seeing outbreaks of rain as well. but we're also going to see some very wet weather arriving into cumbria and southwest scotland by this stage. wales some light showers but to the south and southeast of england mostly dry now overnight that heavy rain continues to mount up across the hills of western scotland, widely 50mm or so, and for some of the wettest spots mull, skye, west highland, argyll, especially over higher ground, there's the risk of 100 to

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dawn neesom in for andrew pierce and the lovely bev turner morning. >> thank you forjoining us. so labour's illegal migrants crackdown the home office is setting out plans to smash the criminal gangs, including new specialist officers and increasing capacity at removal centres. is it going to work? well, we'll be discussing it . well, we'll be discussing it. >> oh, oh, hoping for a miracle. i was watching those pictures. they're amazing, aren't they? divers begin day three of the search of the capsized superyacht with six people still missing. tech tycoon mike lynch is one of those. his former business partner, david tabizel spoke to gb news, but mike stands out to me as a champion of free will and really should be celebrating this country as a leading entrepreneur and as a as a freedom fighter in a way. >> i'm here, live in sicily. as rescue crews enter their third day trying to find those six missing people. as

national convention. here it is. >> i love this story. thousands of animals prepared to jump on the scales at whipsnade zoo for its annual weigh in. today, will hollis is there for us. >> we've got aardvarks. we've got bears, and we've got giraffes. all stepping onto the scale at the uk's largest zoo . scale at the uk's largest zoo. >> do you think he got the memo? like, do you think he thought he was going on safari? he looks so

brilliant. >> i think we missed a trick. we could have turned up in safari gear as well. >> i don't know if he said safari on the call sheet and he thought he was going, you know, to the savannas of africa. >> but we have baby owls coming up. >> i know, i know. honestly, this is just such a lovely summer story. we're going to be there with will a couple of times throughout the next couple of hours. get in touch this morning. gbnews.com forward. slash your safe first at the very latest news headlines with tatiana sanchez . tatiana sanchez. >> bev turner thank you and good morning. the top stories the search for six people that rescuers fear are trapped inside a luxury yacht that sank in a storm off the coast of sicily has now entered its third day. an expert says rescue teams could be listening out for a timed banging noise. the maritime diving and wreckage expert also warned the teams would face a big choice between salvaging the wreck or rescuing bodies as their efforts intensify. the italian coast guard hasn't ruled out the possibility that those missing,

including technology tycoon mike lynch and his 18 year old daughter hannah, may still be alive, with experts suggesting air pockets could have formed as the yacht sank. new video was released yesterday showing the moment the super yacht disappeared from view during the storm. mike lynch's friend and former business partner david tabizel says mike has the strength to survive if there's any chance of him surviving this. >> he has the strength, the strength to do this and i hope that we aren't talking in the past tense, he is a remarkable man and if you've had the blessing and the honour to have worked with him or known him , worked with him or known him, this is he's a force of nature . this is he's a force of nature. and somebody who i think, will become a business, an intellectual and scientific legend in the decades to come . legend in the decades to come. >> the home office has outlined plans to tackle illegal

immigration, including deploying 100 new intelligence officers to target people smuggling gangs. the home secretary has announced the new measures to boost britain's security and to target , britain's security and to target, dismantle and disrupt organised immigration crime networks. yvette cooper has also outlined the government's new plans for the government's new plans for the next six months to achieve the next six months to achieve the highest rate of removals of those who don't have the right to be in the uk, including failed asylum seekers. as part of its plan, the government says it will reopen immigration removal centres in hampshire and oxfordshire, adding 290 beds. the conservatives have said labour were not serious about tackling the people smugglers or stopping the boats. but a home office minister, seema malhotra, says it's important to tighten the country's border security. >> we need to see this action taken , working alongside europol taken, working alongside europol and our international partners so that we can see this action being taken. that's having then an impact on what we're seeing on our borders. but it's also really important that we see enforcement. and that's why

we're increasing as well over the next six months, a surge in returns, because it's really important that those who have no right to stay are also removed from our country. and just in the last six weeks alone, we've seen nine flights, nine return flights, including our largest ever chartered charter return flight with over 200 people returned to their country of origin who have had no right to stay . stay. >> official figures show the rising cost of public services and benefits caused government borrowing last month to surge. on the year before borrowing. the difference between spending and tax income hit £3.1 billion last month, around £18 billion more than in july last year. the increase means borrowing has hit its highest level for the month since 2021. the for office national statistics also revealed the uk's national debt remained at its highest level since the early 1960s. in other news, drones can be safely used to deliver urgent blood stocks

between hospitals. that is according to a new research project. researchers from nhs blood and transplant wanted to see whether a component of blood can be delivered using drones without compromising its quality. they sent identical stocks via road and air to assess any impact overall. ten blood packs were sent on ten journeys, five by land and five through the air, and the results showed that drone delivery did not influence the blood's quality or longevity . now, as quality or longevity. now, as people are waiting over a decade for social housing in more than 80% of councils, the lib dems are urging the government to relax planning laws in these areas to help drive the building of social homes. the party says councils should be able to buy land to build on at cheaper rates. they're calling on the government to support local authorities, who currently have to pay higher rates for land to build on. councils have to buy land for their hope value instead of their current value, preventing social homes from being built on available land.

housing spokesperson for the liberal democrats helen morgan, told gb news that every government that has promised to build housing at scale has failed , haven't built housing at failed, haven't built housing at scale since the 1950s and that's why we've got, you know , why we've got, you know, millions of people, 1.2 million people on social housing waiting lists, families that will have inappropriate housing they are living in. >> you know, seven people in a two bedroom house is one case that i'm trying to deal with at the moment, and we need to recognise the young people need somewhere to live. and i think that immigration isn't is a factor, but it's not the primary driver. we have just failed to build housing for the modern generation , and romanian police generation, and romanian police have raided the home of internet personality andrew tate as part of a new investigation into crimes including human trafficking and money laundering. >> andrew tate has been accused of having formed an organised criminal network in early 2021. in romania and britain , along in romania and britain, along with his brother tristan. they have denied the charges and a

trial date hasn't yet been set. prosecutors allege that 37 year old tate, his 36 year old brother and two women set up a criminal organisation and sexually exploited several victims . and those are the victims. and those are the latest gb news headlines. for now i'm tatiana sanchez. more from me in half an hour for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code or go to gbnews.com forward slash alerts . slash alerts. >> welcome back to britain's newsroom. it's bev turner dawn this morning live across the uk , this morning live across the uk, online, on tv and on radio. of course, while andrew is on his holidays. >> yes. yes it is. yeah. what was the image you painted for me yesterday? >> speedos on a beach. and his budgie smugglers. >> thank you very much. >> thank you very much. >> you've been getting in touch at home. we've been talking about. we were saying earlier about. we were saying earlier about the fact that this yougov

poll was suggesting that 70% of you at home are on board with the government's green energy plans, and i've just seen a message here. here we go. annette. morning, annette. i'm sorry to say, but the yougov poll is 68% for the government. green energy is flawed. the whole green energy is ridiculous. i repeat, it is not green. it's not environmentally friendly and it's not cheap. the uk have been conditioned into thinking this and i'm so glad you reminded us of that, annette, because when i was listening to those statistics with jamie jenkins there, and i was considering why people are so on board, i mean, 70% is very, very high for that sort of opinion poll because it's been assumed that the science is settled on this. and that's what the british public have been told for 25, 30 years that carbon is killing the planet. and it's only really now that some people in the media are allowed to say, can i just suggest there might be an alternative to that? >> i just think most people don't actually understand what they're being asked in that. bren good morning brent. you make a very good point. exactly what i was thinking. a 70%. this

is brent. i've never been asked, nor has my family or my friends. sounds like labour. overegging the pudding to suit their stance. and this is the thing with opinion polls. i've never been asked. >> i have, i have, i haven't. do you know why, though? because i go on. i go on the yougov site and then i sign on for the emails. right. and then you can then be included in some of those that research. so it will send you an email saying, would you like to comment on this? and i go, yes, i would, but that's not a comparative sample then is it because you're you're asking people that have actively signed up to comment. >> yeah. you're not asking ordinary people out there. if someone asked me that question, i don't understand the policy. explain it to me. no politician ever does. >> sometimes i guess there must also be ways in which the polling is determined with different groups as well , different groups as well, depending on who you know. often not with yougov, but often people are paying obviously for polls. they want a certain result to be found. but with the yougov one, i think you can go and get involved online if you feel like you want your voice to be heard. and who doesn't? yeah, the migration thing has also got you going as well. >> this is maggie. good morning

maggie. maggie says, well, yvette cooper are policies will be interesting. how she how will she cope with the lefty lawyers when she tries to remove irregular migrants? yes, indeed. yes. >> right. keep your messages coming this morning, gbnews.com/yoursay. let's go back to sicily now, because, of course, english tech tycoon mike lynch and his daughter are among six tourists still missing after the luxury yacht sank in a tornado off the coast of sicily. >> lynch's former business partner, a david tabizel, shared his thoughts on gb news about his thoughts on gb news about his friend. as the search continues, let's have a listen. >> mike is a very human man. he's he's probably the most resilient human being i've ever met in my life. i've never heard him tell a lie. i think he has an incisive personality. if anyone could still exist in these terrible physical circumstances, if there is an air pocket, he'd have found it. so let's just keep our fingers crossed. first of all, i don't want to talk about him. in the past tense. so there's a lot of

injustice in the world. there always has been. but mike stands to me as a champion of free will and, really should be celebrating in this country as a leading entrepreneur and as a as a freedom fighter in a way. i know that's a little, dramatic, but i to me, he's a hero. >> and i think probably to a lot of us, he would would be a hero. that was david tabizel, who set up the company autonomy with mike lynch many, many years ago. divers are now searching the waters for a third day. italian officials are beginning to investigate what exactly might have led to the sinking. >> so let's cross over to porticello, sicily, where gb news reporter adam cherry joins us live to bring us up to date on the story. adam, hi. good to see you. well, the weather looks lovely where you are at the moment, but obviously that wasn't the case a few nights ago when this awful thing happened. can you bring us up to speed on what is actually happening over in italy at the moment? >> yeah. so the authorities are back on the waters. there's five boats. there's a search and rescue helicopter which circles

the area every hour or so. that was the same yesterday. they're using specialist cave diving equipment and cave divers to go down and reach the vessel, which is about 50m below the surface, which really isn't that far, it's also not far from the shore, which makes all of this particularly cruel. the investigation into why this might have happened is, is now focusing on this potential, on this theory that the hatches and windows of the boat were left open and that may have allowed a large wave to sweep into the vessel and sink it incredibly quickly. and that would explain why other vessels in the area didn't sink. they had their hatches all closed up and this was the only one. so that's the latest information we have at this time. still, six people missing, 15 rescued, although they were rescued very quickly and several of them have already been discharged from hospital, which is the one small piece of

good news, although time is obviously ticking for those who are still missing. >> adam is there a sense of urgency now amongst the crew? because we're talking about this as a search and rescue mission, the possibility of there being air pockets retained in this vast vessel , which perhaps the vast vessel, which perhaps the passengers might have found. it's a it's a slight hope that that's happened. but of course, they're also dealing with the temperatures that far down in the sea, which is not going to be warm. what's the mood like there? i imagine growing more despondent by the minute. >> yeah, it is turning more into a recovery mission. they're debating whether to lift the whole vessel up as it is and lift the hull up as it is and retain its structure, or to enter and potentially find the bodies in their cabins. now, at the moment, they're sticking to just exploring outside. they don't want to tamper with the vessel directly. at this stage they're finding it very difficult to see into it. but thatis difficult to see into it. but that is a discussion that's ongoing and that may change very

soon, because this is now the third day of this operation. and of course , with every hour that of course, with every hour that goes by, this becomes more and more of a pessimistic situation . more of a pessimistic situation. >> okay. yeah. thank you. that's adam cherry live in sicily for us with that horrific situation where the search goes on for the six missing people. >> still that interview, if you didn't see it on jubes last night at 6:00 with mike lynchs former business partner, dig it out on our app because it was absolutely fascinating hearing what a man mike lynch is and also the fact that he'd fought for, you know, 10 to 15 years to clear his name in this financial case in the federal court with a 0.5% chance of winning. and as his colleagues that said there his colleagues that said there his former in one of his very best friends he said, you know he was only able to win that case because he had significant amounts of money and influence and that he was very worried and was going to spend many years, he said, fighting when he called him a freedom fighter. the

collaboration of massive corporations working too closely with governments and too closely with governments and too closely with the judiciary. very much sounds like a man that we would needin sounds like a man that we would need in the next ten years. >> yes, and obviously we don't know. i mean , there is hope. know. i mean, there is hope. i think it's about 36 hours, you know, in an air pocket if they if they manage to find one. so all we can do is pray. and of course, he's the case. >> his poor 18 year old daughter, who was due to start, yes, in september. so anyway, as we know, the rescue mission continues. the emergency services are there on the scene. we'll bring you anything as we know it. yeah, right. is it time to ditch your ham sandwich? >> i think so, yeah. sorry if you're having a late break. well, sort of a brunch, really. but if it's involving a ham sandwich or a bacon butty, it's probably time to step right away from it . now, probably time to step right away from it. now, find out more about that one. this is a britain's newsroom on gb news. put that bacon butty

down. hello. welcome back. it's 1020. oh, gosh. you've already heard that mrs. britain's newsroom with me at around dawn neesom and bev turner in for. i'm in for andrew pierce. she's bev turner. she's always here. we're getting discombobulated. it's really easy to do because we have mike parry in the house and stephen pound joining him. and these two are a lethal combination. they've already started nattering and they're meant to be talking about the news stories. >> right mike. yeah let's talk about mike lynch because i'm now regretting the fact that i wasn't more aware of who this guy is, was we want to talk about him in the present tense . about him in the present tense. obviously, we're considering this a rescue mission. there's a very small possibility that he could be alive. yes. you are familiar with it? oh, absolutely. >> i followed his case in america. you know, avidly. because this guy is so brave . because this guy is so brave. now, behind it all was an alleged business scandal, which has been proved not to have been a business scandal. he sold his company to an american company

for $11 billion, and once they'd got the company, they looked at it and they thought, it's not as good as we thought. so they accused him of fraud. he ends up in a year long trial in ten years? well, no, it was 13 years altogether, the whole case. but he ended up being extradited to america . he was under house america. he was under house arrest for a year in san francisco in a case where his lawyers told him, you've got a 97% chance of being prosecuted here. so if i was you, i would take a plea bargain, like most people do in america, he said no. he had a 3% chance of getting off it, but he believed in himself so strongly he got off it. it's an amazing result. he got to have the courage to say, i think i'm innocent. i'm going to get off. if he didn't, he'd have spent 25 years in an american jail. he's an amazing man. >> also, given that his co—defendant died on saturday by being hit by a car while out front, you can totally understand why there are

theories about the fact that there might be some malfeasance going on here. >> you can. >> you can. >> interestingly, what he was actually accused of doing was artificially increasing and overestimating the value of his assets, which is exactly what trump was accused of doing. yeah, exactly the same thing. but he was obviously fairly confident. but as mike says, you had a 97% chance of a conviction. yes. but the other thing about this, he is an extraordinarily interesting man. he really is. and you're quite right. let's talk about him in the present tense. he is a complete self—made man who's actually a very, very talented mathematician. he nobody did him any favours. he got a scholarship and he somehow he went to cambridge, didn't he? >> and he was so scholarship so far ahead of the curve with the i. well invention not only that, he worked on probabilities and chancesin he worked on probabilities and chances in business. >> he had. yeah exactly. he had an incredible brain . but another an incredible brain. but another thing that not many people know about him is he is recognised as one of the world's leading authorities on james bond and the james bond films. he was fascinated by james bond. he was such an interesting man. and i

mean, what is the coincidence factor that he gets off this after 13 years and two weeks later, an act of god strikes him down. >> sicilian, isn't it? >> sicilian, isn't it? >> actually, yeah . within. >> actually, yeah. within. >> actually, yeah. within. >> yeah. within three days of his co—defendant. yeah. >> can i just say sorry? about 20 years ago, when i was in america, i did a story like this in the bermuda triangle. what happened was it was one of the tall ships boats. i was talking to stephen about it, and it was staffed by people from the duke of edinburgh. so 100 mile an hour wind came up behind the boat just off bermuda and sunk it within 60s . it boat just off bermuda and sunk it within 60s. it tipped boat just off bermuda and sunk it within 60s . it tipped the it within 60s. it tipped the boat forward and, you know, no survivors . nobody was ever survivors. nobody was ever found. but it was a very similar story . yes. and what i'm saying story. yes. and what i'm saying is the danger of high masted boats, i think, should not be underestimated, because i've spoken to a couple of people this week off the back of this who are very experienced in this world of working on these sorts of luxury boats. >> and both of them had said to me , this has to have an element me, this has to have an element of human error. a boat like that will not be just taken down. they said. they'd said initially

a couple of days ago that hatches might have been left open because it was very hot and indeed, i think one of the speculations this morning, a lot of a lot of people who know you know much more than i do about this reckon it could be what we call anchor drag. >> it's where you actually drop the when you just drop the anchon the when you just drop the anchor. because don't forget they couldn't come into the was it porticello the harbour there because they're too big. too big. yeah yeah. so the idea is that if you drop the anchor and unfortunately you're just relying on it catching on the sand at the base, and when it looks like in this case is the wind actually unshipped the anchor and she just drifted into the situation that we which we know about. yeah okay. >> i'll move on to another story that you've selected from the telegraph here, and one that's getting our viewers and our listeners really riled up about. at the moment, it's yvette cooper and labour pledging to detain more illegal migrants and smash those gangs. we've heard it a million times. yeah. what do you make of this one? >> i just find it absolutely amazing. i mean, you know , amazing. i mean, you know, starmer wants to do a deal that meant more people could come here if he sent a few people

back. and now yvette cooper suddenly out of the blue. don't worry, i'm going to round up 14,000 and i'm going to return them. she doesn't say where she's going to return them to or how she's going to find them, because they've escaped into the black economy. so i honestly think it's a lot of hot air and, oh, i'm going to appoint another hundred people to the border control command. i'm sorry. i think it's i think it's piffle . think it's i think it's piffle. >> hang on a second. she's actually talking about appointing having three more immigration detention centres and actually processing people before you carry on with that. >> these were the very same detention centres that the conservatives suggested, and labour threw up their hands in horror. no they weren't. they called them inhumane and immoral. >> no. they talk about the bibby stockholm. >> no , they were talking about >> no, they were talking about these detention centres, the very same detention centre . very same detention centre. >> well, i'm sorry, i mean, the ones that are on ex—military bases are certainly not. i mean, they're actually pretty decent accommodation. but the key thing here is you've got something like 100,000 people. and mike says nobody knows who they are, where they are or what their status is. now, as far as i'm concerned, some of them will probably have a right to claim asylum in this country, and i'd like to see them processed, legitimate and paying tax.

others, if they're scrotes, then you know they've got to be shipped out of here. now you're right, your point you're about to make is that they can't go back to iran or afghanistan or, you know, so the idea is that what do we do with them? do we ship them, ship them out, out to a third country like the hauans a third country like the italians have done with albania? italians have done with albania? i don't know, but all i do know is that once you actually start processing these cases, then you can get a proper grip on the situation. at the moment it's chaos. >> yeah, it's always a risk for politicians, particularly the home secretary to start promises to start putting figures on things . exactly. she must be things. exactly. she must be confident. mike if she's saying 14,000, it's very specific . 14,000, it's very specific. >> i don't think for a moment i think somebody, you know , in the think somebody, you know, in the civil service has come up with this figure of 14,000. you know what i think has happened, and stephen will know more about this than me. i think they've suddenly realised or somebody has warned them, if you scrap the only decent disincentive to come to this country that there was, i.e. the rwanda scheme , was, i.e. the rwanda scheme, without immediately replacing it without immediately replacing it with a credible idea. if you say

you're going to smash the gangs , you're going to smash the gangs, but actually 6000 people have now come since you got into power, you're going to have to come up with something because this policy is immediately failing and a lot of people are now asking, well, rwanda at least was a deterrent. at least people were going to ireland, at least people in calais were saying, i'm not going if i'm going to rwanda. i think they've made a terrible mistake. >> i don't think there's any evidence that rwanda was actually a deterrent. i mean, in some cases it sounded like quite a good deal to be perfectly honest. >> but it seemed to be working in ireland, though. sorry to disagree, but there was a there was a thought process and there were some people who said that. >> but a particularly small number of people. look, the key thing here is when you've got these people swirling around and nobody knows who or what or why or where, we've got to get a grip on it that way. and the easiest thing to do is the basic thing to do is actually stop processing people. now, you know, and i we've had these long arguments about id cards. i still think there needs to be some sort of identification. >> yeah, i do as well. yeah i do, i think that would help everybody because the number of businesses i see opening in

small towns that i visit, which to me don't seem to be commercially viable, is growing . commercially viable, is growing. and i'm talking about hairdressers, i'm talking about nail bars, 11 hairdressers within one square mile of where i live now. >> obviously i don't spend a great deal of time. yeah yeah, yeah. >> it's not your not your business. it's keeping them open isn't it. >> well no, no they do charge me a search fee but i mean yeah but and these american sweet shops you see in oxford street i totally agree. and car washes are the other classic. >> and gymnasiums, i think. shops. i think gymnasiums are popping up shops. i think gymnasiums are popping up all over the place, and nobody seems to ever use them. >> but why? we have we have the rules in place and we have the trading standards. well you go around and say, no, the rules are who are you? you cannot employ someone who does not have the legal right to work here. >> yeah, yeah. the question is how? how seldom do they actually hmrc. >> no never come in. there's one hairdressers opened near me and there are four 4x4 cars parked out the back every day. brand new cars. and there is never a customer inside that business.

i'm certain there is some chicanery going on. and wouldn't you think if it's obvious to stephen and to me to and you, wouldn't you think somebody wouldn't you think somebody would say, we better have a look at these? >> you would, but it doesn't seem to be happening, does it? >> you also seem to be open all night. now, call me old fashioned, but who's going to actually get 3:00 in the morning? i must have a short back and sides, actually. >> thank you very much. >> thank you very much. >> who would go? she wakes up every morning at 3:00. she'd be in there and my hair does need doing. >> it has to be said. but let's move on to the important story of the day, ham sandwiches. we are talking killer ham sandwiches from hell now. two slices of ham, a day is raising the danger of our type diabetes. >> is there anything left at all that isn't lethal or fattening or killing? exactly is there nothing left there? there are no indulgences. is there nothing thatis indulgences. is there nothing that is actually not going to cause us lethal harm ? i'm sorry. cause us lethal harm? i'm sorry. okay. cigarettes, i can understand. i can understand the problem with that. but a ham sandwich. it's a god given right of every english person to have a ham. i totally agree, and maybe with a bit of pickle on it, put a tomato. >> but anyway, what's wrong with

that? in good establishments you get ham carved off the bone so it's not processed. it's rather nice stuff. and i've already got type 2 diabetes, so you can't frighten me about a ham sandwich, right? no problem there. but i do think that the, you know, the people who want to find something to worry about will always talk about processed food . if food wasn't processed, food. if food wasn't processed, it would go rotten. food has to be processed in the modern world because we have to transport it around, and we have to keep it in fridges for people to eat. >> i think one of the great tragedies, one of the ham sandwich related tragedies, was mama cass elliot of the mamas and the papas, who apparently choked to death on acid at the same time as karen carpenter died of anorexia. now if karen carpenter be careful where you're going, but i think also john was also that was a joke for our audience . for our audience. >> remember both of those people? yes. joke for our audience. >> i think john bonham, the drummer of led zeppelin, i think he also choked on a ham sandwich at 6:00 in the morning with two large, vodka and tonics, a little bit of what you fancy

does you good. >> i always think everything in moderation, in moderation . that moderation, in moderation. that is all you need to know. >> except moderation. >> except moderation. >> except moderation. >> except you two would like a little more of you, and you will be back in the next hour. that's time now for your news headlines. here's tatiana sanchez. >> beth. thank you. the top stories this hour, the search for six people that rescuers fear are trapped inside a luxury yacht that sank in a storm off the coast of sicily has now entered its third day. an expert says rescue teams could be listening out for a timed banging noise. the maritime diving and wreckage expert also warned the teams would face a big choice between salvaging the wreck or rescuing bodies, as their efforts intensify. the italian coast guard hasn't ruled out the possibility that those missing, including technology tycoon mike lynch and his 18 year old daughter hannah, may still be alive, with experts suggesting air pockets could have formed as the yacht sank.

new video was released yesterday showing the moment the superyacht disappeared from view dunng superyacht disappeared from view during the storm. the home office has outlined plans to tackle illegal immigration, including deploying 100 new intelligence officers to target people smuggling gangs. the home secretary has announced the new measures to boost britain's security and to target , security and to target, dismantle and disrupt organised immigration crime networks. yvette cooper has also outlined the government has new plans for the government has new plans for the next six months to achieve the next six months to achieve the highest rate of removals. of those who don't have the right to be in the uk, including failed asylum seekers. as part of its plan, the government says it will reopen immigration removal centres in hampshire and oxfordshire, adding 290 beds. official figures show the rising cost of public services and benefits caused government borrowing last month to surge on the year before borrowing hit £3.1 billion last month, around £1.8 £3.1 billion last month, around £18 billion more than in july.

£1.8 billion more than in july. last year. the increase means borrowing has hit its highest level for the month since 2021. the for office national statistics also revealed the uk's national debt remained at its highest level since the early 1960s, and romanian police have raided the home of internet personality andrew tate as part of a new investigation into crimes including human trafficking and money laundering. andrew tate has been accused of having formed an organised criminal network in early 2021. in romania and in britain, along with his brother tristan . they have denied the tristan. they have denied the charges and a trial date hasn't yet been set. prosecutors allege that 37 year old tate, his 36 year old brother and two women set up a criminal organisation and sexually exploited several victims . and those are the victims. and those are the latest gb news headlines. for now, i'm tatiana sanchez. more from me in half an hour for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code ,

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soon. >> 1038 this soon. >>1038 this is britain's newsroom on gb news with me. bev turner and dawn, because andrew is on his hobbies. >> indeed, now teenagers who perform poorly in their core gcses are more likely to be engagedin gcses are more likely to be engaged in criminal behaviour, according to new research . according to new research. >> well, pupils who fail to achieve a standard pass in their engush achieve a standard pass in their english and maths had a significantly higher incidence of being stopped, questioned and formally cautioned by the police

compared with their peers. but surely this is nothing new? yes, exactly. >> joining us now to discuss this is professor of criminology at staffordshire university, james treadwell. james, thank you very much for joining us this morning. now we're discussing this story because gcse results are out on thursday i believe. but surely this isn't doesn't come a surprise to anybody does it . anybody does it. >> no. it's no shock at all. i mean, lee elliot major, who's actually the author of the report, the first professor of social mobility in the uk, is someone who is well worth listening to . but there are no listening to. but there are no shocks here in terms of what's been suggested. in effect, all of the indicators are that for those who leave school without any form of qualification , any form of qualification, particularly failures in the lower level gcse, so indicating that those young people have often dropped out of the school and educational system prior to taking gcses. essentially have

have big gaps that affect not only their their involvement in criminal justice, but all sorts of life outcomes. i mean, in essence, they're things like they're more likely to smoke, they're more likely to smoke, they're more likely to smoke, they're more likely to come into contact with the police, and again, it reflects a lot of, of the fact that that education really is, is a vehicle for social mobility. and without those very basics and, you know, bafic those very basics and, you know, basic standard for in, in maths and english is fairly basic. you know, people are going to struggle throughout their lives. >> in your experience, james, working with students and your experience as a professor, do you have concerns that the actual curriculum that we're now still, you know, forcing children to sit isn't really fit for purpose in the 21st century? because i've got three, three teens, actually, one of them's just 20. but, you know, when i look at kids who come through my door and sit around my kitchen table, you've got some incredibly intelligent, smart

verbal , switched on kids who verbal, switched on kids who could sell snow to eskimos. but do you know what? they probably can't sit in english and write an english essay. we're not really serving those kids, and i bet a lot of them are in these statistics. >> i think that's very, very true . and, i mean, i say that as true. and, i mean, i say that as someone who didn't perform wonderfully well at school myself and now has, you know, two degrees, a master's, a phd, you know, for me, i was very late to kind of education, but a lot of the young people who who've failed, particularly in the school environment, i think what we then try and do, and i've seen this countless times in the criminal justice system, is we try and catch them up, for example, in young offenders institutions recreating the same systems. so we put them back into classrooms and we try and teach them basics of english and maths again . and it just doesn't maths again. and it just doesn't connect because school is quite often a negative experience. and there's a whole wider range of reasons that that's the case. i mean, looking at kind of the barriers to social mobility, adverse childhood experiences and all manner of other factors

come into play. but you know, often those young people are they have a range of skills, but they're not necessarily they're not necessarily served well , by not necessarily served well, by the way, that the formal education curriculum tries to teach them. those skills, i think, and then trying to catch them up throughout life by using exactly the same sort of mechanisms , sitting them in mechanisms, sitting them in classrooms and trying to get them to pay attention often doesn't work when they quite often like a kind of vocational appued often like a kind of vocational applied forms of learning. so i think some of it is about how we how we teach the basics of engush how we teach the basics of english and maths as, as life skills to people who sometimes don't thrive well in a school environment. and i think there'll be no shock to find, you know, very often the young people , particularly those that people, particularly those that come to the attention to the criminal justice system and they're coming to the attention of the criminal justice system for what are quite serious. but but no doubt, problematic crimes, violent crime and

acquisitive crime . they're acquisitive crime. they're bright. they can be. they can be entrepreneurial, they can be clever. but they don't necessarily show that through sitting down with the kind of pen and paper learning and teaching in that way. >> yeah. so how how do we sort this problem out then? >> no, james, i mean, you know, as the author of this report has said, you know, we need to reassess what we're doing here, but there's no easy, quick answers, are there? >> there aren't easy and quick answers. but, you know, if we think of those basic life skills that are required when it comes to english and maths, being able to english and maths, being able to read an advertisement, a timetable, being able to price something up, you know , and that something up, you know, and that those skills can often be taught through a wider range of activities than the kind of standard, you know , sit and do standard, you know, sit and do a gcse level maths. and i think it's about kind of finding ways to correct that , to connect to correct that, to connect those real world experiences that they might relate to, you

know, whether it be through music, arts and enterprise, you know, some of the most entrepreneurial young people, you know, like, here you go, have some money and work out how you do accounting with this. yeah. you know, and also and you know and get them get these kids learning a trade make them plumbers and bricklayers and joiners and electricians. >> some of these lads that end up , particularly the boys that up, particularly the boys that end up in the criminal justice system, would probably be brilliant property developers or working on houses, and we're just neglecting that , aren't we? just neglecting that, aren't we? >> and i think that's very much the case. it's about how we make engush the case. it's about how we make english and maths as basic skills, relevant to every facet of life and how we make it relevant to them as well, you know, and it doesn't necessarily work or connect well, when, you know, when you're teaching them in a classroom, but teaching in other ways, you know, for example, using sports science and sports, exercise, boxing, personal training, you know,

those sorts of things can be used to teach numeracy and literacy as well , because you literacy as well, because you can find that, you know, for someone who doesn't want to read, you know, reading the autobiography of their favourite mma fighter might be a way , mma fighter might be a way, actually, you know, of gaining and bringing them in. so it's about being inventive and creative sometimes, you know, you've clearly got you clearly have contact with you clearly have contact with you clearly have contact with teenage boys to know that mma is right up there on their list of interests at the moment, mixed martial arts, that is. >> if you're wondering what that is, really good to talk to you. thank you so much. professor of criminology at staffordshire university, james treadwell. don't you wish bridget phillipson? oh my god. was talking about this rather than saying, we're going to teach your children what is truth on the internet? >> no, honestly, i thought he spoke so much sense when my husband struggled with reading when he was younger, he taught himself to read by reading music magazines. exactly because that was a subject he was interested in. it's not rocket science, is it? >> it's so difficult because the system, the education system is so old and so victorian and so

clunky and it would take real vision and innovation to change it. and i just don't have any. >> you still have nightmares about taking a—levels and exams. >> i would love to take my a—levels and my exams. i loved studying, but that is unusual andifs studying, but that is unusual and it's very often quite a female to have nightmares about taking them, though i'm thinking about doing one right anyway. go on, you are going to be crossing over to whipsnade zoo in just a minute. thousands of animals are preparing to step, slither or crawl onto the scales for their annual weigh in day. this is britain's newsroom live across the uk on

gb news. >> hello and welcome back. now from giraffe to giant snails, tigers and tortoises are thousands of animals will step , thousands of animals will step, suther thousands of animals will step, slither and crawl onto scales today at whipsnade zoo for their

annual weigh in. >> so gb news reporter will hollis is there morning will looking the part as well in his little outdoor safari gear . little outdoor safari gear. there will okay. what's happening? paint us the picture . happening? paint us the picture. >> good morning. well, it's pretty much clear blue skies here in bedfordshire at whipsnade , which is the uk's whipsnade, which is the uk's largest zoo and when you've got 10,000 animals, that comes with a lot of responsibility, doesn't it, bev? and part of having those animals and running an ethical zoo is you sign up to conservation to share your conservation to share your conservation data around the entire world, and that means the animals in the wild and animals that live in zoos like this one are better protected . we've seen are better protected. we've seen giraffes. we're hoping to see some aardvarks later as well, but right now we're with one of the cutest animals that you could ever imagine a burrowing owl. and if you can see over in

the middle where anna, who is one of the bird keepers here, we're just trying to get the owl to come over to us with a little bit of a treat. now, what's happening today is the annual weigh in. and that means the 10,000 animals that call whipsnade zoo home. they're going to be weighed on very specialist scales, and they're going to be measured as well. and it doesn't seem like etty wants to hang out with us today. hopefully etty will come over. but, anna, you're one of the bird keepers here at whipsnade zoo. do you want to come down? and we can just be down here and maybe etty will come over to us and just tell me. what is etty? she's a burrowing owl. what does that mean? >> so she's a burrowing owl. she is a small species in the genus , is a small species in the genus, which means that she is very closely related to the little house that we tend to find here in the uk. as well. and they're a bit of an odd species because they're one of the few species of owls that lives close on the ground and sort of underground, because they do burrow like the name suggests. so they're specialist at sort of digging

holes, living in holes and basically sort of the bird equivalent of a prairie dog. >> and this is just one animal that you have here at whipsnade. what goes into this process of weighing the 10,000 that you have here, >> it's a lot, i think, especially on the group, we work on. so the flying bird team, because we have roughly about i think it's around 60 different individual birds. they all get weighed on a day to day basis. some of the birds get weighed twice a day as well. and so it's a lot of us using scales in a day . basically it's a lot of us using scales in a day. basically it's a a lot of us using scales in a day . basically it's a lot of a lot of us using scales in a day. basically it's a lot of a lot of work and it's essential for what we do because that's how we calculate their food. >> and what does it tell you if the animal is getting a little bit bigger or a little bit smaller than you would expect it to be? >> so when it comes to weighing the birds, it tells us quite a lot. it tells us, if, for example, you have a young animal, it tells us the growth, development of the animal, which

is really important for us to keep track of on just a day to day basis. it can tell us, just how the animal is feeling. so for our birds, we just adapt what we adapt what we give them based on their weights. so if we think for whatever reason, they've dropped a little bit in weight, then we'll make sure, we'll make sure that we give them a little bit extra food, and just make sure that they're healthy and happy. >> and etty does seem healthy and happy. you can probably hear her squawking in the background. she doesn't want to come over. we were hoping to put her on my hand, but later on we're going to be seeing a barbarossa pig, which is an endangered pig from indonesia, and maybe it will be a little bit more interested in what i have to say this morning . what i have to say this morning. >> very sweet. i just want to see an animal on some scales. i won't lie, i'm excited. >> but as you said, both the owl wasn't going to come anywhere near will because he's dressed like a hunter. >> yeah, sorry. >> yeah, sorry. >> well, that , you know, these

>> well, that, you know, these animals are not are not daft looking at you and thinking he's going to end up on your dinner plate dressed like that, you've probably got a rifle in the back of your jeep out of shot. well well done. thank you. >> good to see you. >> thank you. still to come this morning the tories couldn't stop the boat, but labour are now promising they're going to smash the gangs. still saying it. can they don't go anywhere . they don't go anywhere. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar, sponsors of weather on gb news . news. >> hello. very good morning to you. time for the latest forecast from the met office for gb news. fine at first today for many of us, but it is going to turn increasingly wet from the west . wettest in western west. wettest in western scotland in fact from mid—morning that persistent rain already setting in across western scotland starting to cloud over with outbreaks of rain moving into northern ireland by lunchtime and some spits and spots of rain across western england as well as wales generally clouding over through the midlands, the south and

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>> go away . >> go away. >> go away. >> it's 11:00 >> go away. >> it's11:00 on wednesday. the 21st of august. live across the uk. this is britain's newsroom with me, bev turner and dawn neesom for in andrew. >> indeed. now labour's illegal migrant crackdown. the home

office is setting out plans to smash the criminal gangs, including new specialist officers, increasing capacity at removal centres . mark white has more. >> well, those plans include 100 new investigators for the national crime agency and a plan to remove 14,000 illegal immigrants every year. >> hoping for a miracle. divers begin day three of the search of the capsized superyacht with six people still missing. tech tycoon mike lynch is one of those whose former business partner, david tabizel spoke to gb news. >> but mike stands out to me as a champion of free will and really should be celebrating in this country as a leading entrepreneur and as a as a freedom fighter in a way . freedom fighter in a way. >> and the chancellor's getting tough as winter fuel payments are scrapped. this winter. rachel reeves is set to raise taxes, cut spending and get tough on benefits to turn the

economy around. ray addison have more on this one. >> absolutely zero support from pensioners here in crawley, with one man describing it as monetary abuse of the elderly. >> and lovely whipsnade zoo in bedfordshire is hosting its annual weigh in day for its animals. today will hollis is there ? there? >> all creatures great and small. today they're stepping onto the scales at the uk's largest zoo . largest zoo. >> don't forget we want to hear. oh, yeah. go on. sorry dawn. >> it's not about us. it's about you . evidently. i know, i know, you. evidently. i know, i know, but it's about you, so it's very simple to get in touch. just send us your views at gbnews.com/yoursay. we want to know how much you think this pig

weighs. >> and yes, that is a type of pig- >> and yes, that is a type of pig. we're doing a weigh. the pig pig. we're doing a weigh. the pig competition this morning. what do you reckon is the weight of that pig? we're going to find out in a little while. gbnews.com/yoursay first, though, the very latest news with the very beautiful tatiana sanchez. >> bev, thank you very much. and good morning. the top stories. a team of four british inspectors from the marine accident investigation branch have now arrived in sicily, where they're expected to look at the site of the sinking yacht. that's as the search for six people now enters a third day. they're expected to carry out a preliminary assessment of the site today. the mib is looking into what happened because it's understood the vessel was flying a british flag. the italian coastguard hasn't ruled out the possibility that those missing, including technology tycoon mike lynch and his 18 year old daughter hannah may still be alive, with experts

suggesting air pockets could have formed as the yacht sank. new video was released yesterday showing the moment the super yacht disappeared from view dunng yacht disappeared from view during the storm. mike lynch's friend and former business partner david tabizel says mike has the strength to survive. >> if there's any chance of him surviving this, he has the strength, the strength to do this and i hope that we aren't talking in the past tense. he is a remarkable man and if you've had the blessing and the honour to have worked with him or known him, this is he's a force of nature and somebody who i think, will become a business, an intellectual and scientific legend in the decades to come . legend in the decades to come. >> the home office has outlined plans to tackle illegal immigration, including deploying 100 new intelligence officers to target people smuggling gangs. the home secretary has announced the new measures to boost britain's security and to target ,

britain's security and to target, dismantle and disrupt organised immigration crime networks. yvette cooper has also outlined the government's new plans for the government's new plans for the next six months to achieve the next six months to achieve the highest rate of removals. of those who don't have the right to be in the uk, including failed asylum seekers, as part of its plan, the government says it will reopen immigration removal centres in both hampshire and oxfordshire, adding 290 beds. the conservative party have said labour were not serious about tackling the people smugglers or stopping the boats . official stopping the boats. official figures show. the rising cost of pubuc figures show. the rising cost of public services and benefits caused government borrowing last month to surge on the year before borrowing. the difference between spending and tax income hit £3.1 billion last month, around £18 billion more than in july last year. around £18 billion more than in july last year . the increase july last year. the increase means borrowing has hit its highest level for the month since 2021. the office for national statistics also revealed the uk's national debt remained at its highest level since the early 1960s. in other

news, a new research project has found that drones can be safely used to deliver urgent blood stocks between hospitals. researchers from nhs blood stocks between hospitals. researcherwanteles blood stocks between hospitals. researcherwanted tos blood stocks between hospitals. researcherwanted to see )od stocks between hospitals. researcherwanted to see whether transplant wanted to see whether a component of blood can be delivered using drones without compromising its quality . they compromising its quality. they sent identical stocks via road and to air assess any impact. overall, ten blood packs were sent on ten journeys, five by land and five through the air, and the results showed that drone delivery did not influence the blood's quality or longevity . the blood's quality or longevity. now, as people are waiting over a decade for social housing in more than 80% of councils, the lib dems are urging the government to relax planning laws in these areas to help drive the building of social homes . the party says councils homes. the party says councils should be able to buy land to build on at cheaper rates. they are calling on the government to support local authorities, who currently have to pay higher rates for land to build on. councils have to buy land for their hope value instead of

their hope value instead of their current value, preventing social homes from being built on available land . housing available land. housing spokesperson for the lib dems helen morgan, told gb news that every government that has promised to build housing at scale has failed , haven't built scale has failed, haven't built housing at scale since the 1950s and that's why we've got you know, millions of people, 1.2 million people on social housing waiting lists, families that will have inappropriate housing they are living in, you know , they are living in, you know, seven people in a two bedroom house in one case that i'm trying to deal with at the moment. >> and we need to recognise the young people need somewhere to live. and i think that immigration isn't is a factor, but it's not the primary driver we have just failed to build housing for the modern generation and romanian police have raided the home of internet personality andrew tate as part of a new investigation into crimes including human trafficking and money laundering. >> andrew tate has been accused of having formed an organised criminal network in early 2021,

in romania and in britain, along with his brother tristan. they have denied the charges and a trial date hasn't yet been set. prosecutors allege that 37 year old tate is 36 year old brother and two women set up a criminal organisation and sexually exploited several victims . those exploited several victims. those are the latest gb news headlines. for now i'm tatiana sanchez. more from me in half an hour for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code, or go to gbnews.com forward slash alerts . forward slash alerts. >> welcome back to britain's newsroom live across the uk with me, bev turner and andrew here while andrew here. so dawn is here while andrew is on his holidays. >> i can identify as andrew. that's fine. i do not have a problem, but i am not wearing budgie smugglers. >> right? we asked you to tell us how heavy this pig is online.

this is called a babirusa pig. if you're a pig expert, do let us know. paul has said he thinks it's 47kg lots in the same area. >> sparky. gazza says 50kg. just to be clear , 47kg is £103. to be clear, 47kg is £103. >> for those of you out there, i'm surprised that everybody's sending the weight in in kilos. actually, it's a lot of bacon. >> and devere group says 32kg. >> and devere group says 32kg. >> let me tell you what that is in stones. hold the line, caller. i will just tell you what that is in stones. so seven stones is 47kg. >> that's quite a lot then, isn't it? >> quite a few of you are around that area. yeah. 32kg. so just a bit less. >> yeah. they're all roughly in 50, 47kg coming in here. >> well we don't actually know the answer do we yet by the way yet. >> but we will let you know. and i also like the fact that janice has messaged to say there are old people in their 90s who've eaten ham, bacon and full fat food. it can't be that dangerous. which is maybe a slightly inappropriate segue, but there we go. >> yeah, absolutely.

>> yeah, absolutely. >> yeah, absolutely. >> yeah , absolutely i agree. i >> yeah, absolutely i agree. i do like this. i do like this message . will our lovely message. will our lovely reporter down at whipsnade, sorry, i've lost your name on here, but please tell to will keep moving around as he looks like a mushroom in that hat. and pigs like a mushroom in that hat. and pigs eat mushrooms. >> oh, poor will. poor will. right. moving on. the government is setting out new measures today to crack down on illegal migration. and as they've been telling us, smash those criminal gangs we keep hearing. >> don't we? the home secretary, yvette cooper, is set to recruit 100 new specialist intelligence officers and investigation officers and investigation officers and investigation officers and increase the capacity at immigration removal centres in the next six months. >> labour wants to achieve the highest rate of removals of those with no right to be here, including failed asylum seekers, for five years. mark white is with us in the studio. grand plans or everything we've heard before. mark >> well, it doesn't really matter what government you've got in office. there's always an element of smoke and mirrors, or as the government would prefer it to be described as, you know, accentuating the positive here. the fact is, governments have

always removed those with no right to be here. and in fact, the conservatives removed 7000 people last year in forced removals. that was up from 4000 a year before. now the conservatives want to double that to 14,000. they may well be able to do that. they're going to increase the number of enforcement raids. but the fact is they've been going on as well. we've got some video we can show you of a raid that we attended not that long ago at a scrap yard in east london, where a number of illegal workers were found inside the premises. there and they were arrested by immigration enforcement. so immigration enforcement. so immigration enforcement. so immigration enforcement have been stepping up before this government came into power. they're proactive operations to try to round up illegal workers. but when i tell you that there are estimated to be and we don't really know for sure, but at least 1.5 million people working

in the illegal economy in the uk, it's a tiny drop in the ocean. this is a problem . ocean. this is a problem. >> we don't know who these people are or where they are. i mean, you know, yvette cooper has gone on about nail bars and illegal car washes. et cetera. et cetera. labour are claiming that the migrant crossing since the election is 14% lower than this time last year. the election is 14% lower than this time last year . you've been this time last year. you've been down in dover a lot, haven't you? reporting on this story for us? i mean, do you think this is labour's policies actually having an effect or just the weather making a difference here? >> well, it's all to do with the weather, you know, and i said exactly the same under the previous government when they tried to give us the old we're down 36% on the previous year. that was a year where we had lots of windy conditions in the channel days that it was just not possible for the people smugglers to push out their boats. and we saw a reduction in the numbers coming across. now, as i say, what they want to do is try and remove 14,000 of these people who are not allowed to remain in the country now. they will be failed asylum seekers. they will also be those

who are visa overstayers and they will also be foreign, national offenders. this is what seema malhotra, the home office minister, told us a little earlier. >> we need to see this action taken. working alongside europol and our international partners so that we can see this action being taken. that's having then an impact on what we're seeing on our borders. but it's also really important that we see enforcement, and that's why we're increasing as well. over the next six months, a surge in returns, because it's really important that those who have no right to stay are also removed from our country. and just in the last six weeks alone, we've seen nine flights, nine return flights, including our largest ever chartered charter return flight with over 200 people returned to their country of origin who have had no right to stay . stay. >> mark, explain this to me that footage that we've just seen there of the authorities bursting in on a scrap metal yard then, and they seized those

people. what happens to them then? where do they go? >> this will infuriate our audience, but many of them are processed and then released on bail , and processed and then released on bail, and many of them just disappear back into the illegal economy. that is the sort of cat and mouse game that immigration enforcement is involved in. now, part of what the government is planning to do, which is effectively adopting the policy of the previous government, is to open some of these old immigration detention removal centres. so that will mean some of those they believe are at higher risk of absconding. they can put into immigration removal centres. but you can only do that for a certain amount of time. you can't leave them in there indefinitely. so it has to be at the end process where you know that their legal challenges have been pretty much exhausted. so you can hold them for a short amount of time in an immigration enforcement centre and then get them removed. mark these immigration enforcement centres are 290 detention spaces, and

these are the same two former army bases that when labour are in opposition, they said were inhumane and immoral. >> what's different? i mean , how >> what's different? i mean, how is it the figures just don't add up? 290 spaces? well we need to make the distinction. >> these are different. so you've got the former military bases such as wethersfield and raf scampton where they were holding asylum seekers. these are immigration enforcement centres. they've always existed under multiple governments. and they are the places when you're deemed to be illegal, either a visa overstayer a foreign national offender that has just been released and they want to return you to your home country or failed asylum seeker, for instance. and they believe you might not turn up for your plane to be deported. you're held in these centres and they have always been, you know, sort of former prisons, former psychiatric hospitals, things like that, that have been converted into these immigration

enforcement centres. so labour might not like that, you know , might not like that, you know, issue of locking up people, but they realise in, in, within a government where you have to have control of your borders and an ability to forcibly remove those who have no right to be here, then detention is an element of the enforcement strategy that you would have 1.5 million people working illegally in this country. >> what would we do if all those 1.5 million people were sent back home? that's1.5 million people who are not doing jobs, which are clearly need to be filled. >> well, you make a good point. and there's also the argument from those that say make them righteous and get them paying taxes. and contributing properly to society . that's one argument. to society. that's one argument. the counter—argument to that is, it then becomes a free for all of people thinking, i can come to the uk, i'm going to get an amnesty and i can stay and you're going to have many more people turning up on the shores of the uk, isn't it?

>> that's the whole point of what? well, that's certainly one of the key planks. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> what a mess. what a mess it is. >> no government so far ever really been able to come up with a proper, workable solution to it. >> all right. thanks, mark. thank you. right. still to come. do you think working from home encourages a little bit of skiving, or do you agree that the prime minister the prime minister, who it should be encouraged? we'll be discussing that

gb news. >> hello. welcome back . it's >> hello. welcome back. it's nearly 1120. this is britain's newsroom on gb news with dawn neesom and bev turner. now we've got the highlight of the morning for you. it's broadcaster mike parry and former labour mp stephen pound in the studio going through those newspapers. >> it's a fairly low bar. >> it's a fairly low bar. >> excuse me. speak for yourself please . please. >> three stories. a really, really want us to get through. first of all, working from home, good or bad, stephen pound. bad.

really? >> yeah. i'm sorry. there's this big theory, isn't it? i mean, in keir starmer actually said it this week that you can actually increase productivity from working from home, but you miss out on so much that interaction. people getting ideas off each other, bouncing schemes, not just gossip around the water cooler. i think the idea is that you should actually have that human interaction, the idea that people are sitting there in their pyjamas doing working from home, and how do we know they are working? >> we wonder why people are getting depressed. mike. you know, i do have some sympathy for this as a as a mum, when i was, particularly when the kids were younger, the idea that you could have done some work from home, just run them round the corner to the nursery, get back on your computer, you're saving all that commuting time, lovely special circumstances. >> that and i'd be sympathetic to that if i was a boss as well. but the idea that you can pick and choose where you work when somebody else is paying you your wages, and of course, my big bugbear is the civil service, the civil service have adopted it almost as a right. of course, we can work from home, why shouldn't we? we run the country. yeah, but we pay. if you run the country and you run

it very badly. it's a disaster. it's the end of civilised working as we know it. >> it could be the end of humanity to not make an exaggeration. because where do you meet your future partners? your wives and your girlfriends? >> exactly. >> exactly. >> human beings are social animals. they're social. totally agree. and? and you can actually increase productivity, i think, just by the number of times people in an office, they say, why don't we do it this way? why don't we do it that way? and you can bounce off one another? >> and of course you do. >> and of course you do. >> of course you do. >> of course you do. >> haaland was what i was looking for. yeah. >> you get half an idea here. >> you get half an idea here. >> yeah, right. let's also move on to. please. can we the least attractive male hobbies. dawn, i love this. >> yes, indeedy. okay, so the least attractive male hobbies according to women, right? okay evidently in at number one is playing video games. number two, collecting figurines, collecting figurines. it's like things like warhammer, things like that. you know, it's a boy thing. magic tncksin know, it's a boy thing. magic tricks in at number three. online trolling at number four. gambling. at number five, building model trains. taxidermy and comic book collecting. boys.

what do you. >> i'm sorry if my if my daughter came back and said, this is my new boyfriend. he's in a stuffing dead animals. i'd want to have a word. >> yeah, exactly. >> yeah, exactly. >> you've got this thing there about model trains. well, look, rod stewart, one of the greatest living human beings. yes. he said wherever he goes, he actually carries a massive great train set with him. >> well, he's got a huge. >> well, he's got a huge. >> yeah, he brought it at home. >> yeah, he brought it at home. >> he brought it back from california. he had it in his home in la. okay. and he decided to relocate back to england. and he had the whole thing shipped back. it's one of the biggest in the world. >> it's a 1930s model of new york with grand central station all that lot. yeah. >> hold on a minute. you used to know way more information than bev and i about rod stewart's train set. yeah, which just says everything you need to know about boys toys . about boys toys. >> fellas, can we. can we? in the interest of balance here and gender balance. what about the irritating habits that women have that men? because, i mean, ihave have that men? because, i mean, i have to say, collecting shoes. we don't have . we don't have. >> that's not a hobby that we do. this is the thing that also this rafe. we don't have time for hobbies. we're too busy. exactly. don't, don't. >> some of these things you pick up as you go through life. for

instance, i've got a collection of toby jugs. okay. which i put in all around my house for years, but the one that i can admit to comic book collecting. ihave admit to comic book collecting. i have got football annuals going back to when i was a kid. okay, 1966, the world cup winner's football album. >> they were worth anything. >> they were worth anything. >> well, they'll be worth a lot. i've got a collection of about 40 of them now, and if i go to a second—hand, you know, bookshop or something, i always look for one. and they're beautiful pieces of historical childhood memory, you know, the complete collection of conan the barbarian, including the barry smith illustrations. >> back in the early days before sal buscema took over books will be the gold of the future. >> i'm telling you now, because everyone reads everything on kindle, and when our internet gets turned off or, you know, your device dies, you can't read anything. yeah, the one on here that has attracted these least attractive hobbies the most extraordinary one on here, the hobbyis extraordinary one on here, the hobby is online trolling. yeah. what is that? that is a hobby. that's a hobby . that's a hobby. >> that's a crime, isn't it? >> online trolling is a hobby . >> online trolling is a hobby. is actually not as unattractive to women as playing video games. that's the one that women hate

the most. >> but the other thing that apparently women hate men doing magic tricks. now you know , i'm magic tricks. now you know, i'm sure it must have happened to you. you're in the pub, and not that you would ever be in a pub. no, no, no. but then somebody comes in and has a great chat and they start, you know, having cards and coins and everything. but men who can do magic tricks, who think they can do magic tricks, are very, very irritating . irritating. >> no, they're very entertaining and possibly good with their hands. so that's a tick from me. moving on. >> moving on very swiftly, kirstie allsopp. >> kirstie allsopp, tv presenter, property expert etc. kirstie allsopp has allowed her 15 year old son to go interrailing this summer and it's caused absolute controversy. people saying too young to allow somebody to go off for three weeks, he went off with a 16 year old friend of his jumping on and off trains, seeing europe, and she said, i'm very proud of him. >> two young mike well, i think that's parental decision. i mean, you know, a child of 15 can either be immature or very mature. i think this boy is actually 16 today, so he's just become 16. but i mean, look, she's a very, very responsible human being. she's had big

responsibilities in life. if her decision was my lads are right to go off at 15 and he's got a mate who's 16 who might be a year older. i support her decision. >> i support her completely on this because i think we've got a generation of kids who have never had that leash lengthened. what were you doing at 15? >> i was joining the navy. exactly. >> and we've got to have this conversation about mollycoddling the older generations. >> my mum was working in a factory at 15. this is the thing. >> what did you do at 15? >> what did you do at 15? >> i can't say that on air until possibly after 9:00. >> with somebody. >> with somebody. >> yes, yes, yes. thank you. yeah. yes. i'm okay with the band. that's fine . band. that's fine. >> my son, you're a groupie. >> my son, you're a groupie. >> basically around the world. >> basically around the world. >> he went to thailand. he went. in fact, he ended up working in australia. but the only thing i found bizarre about him going backpacking was that as soon as he got to thailand, he met all his mates back from west london. they were all there in the same backpackers hostel. yeah. and then they all got married. >> and now we've wrapped up in cotton wool and they're not allowed out of the house. >> that's the problem. and

everybody over worries. i say good on kirsty. >> yes, i agree for doing this and for raising this issue. >> interrailing is pretty safe anyway. >> it's pretty safe. >> it's pretty safe. >> it's pretty safe. >> it's not like hitchhiking in my day. now that was dangerous. >> well, it wasn't though, was it? because there weren't nutters around in those days that there are now? i used to hitchhike all over the place trying to get to everton football matches. i never once encountered any real problem and we were about 15. me and my mate. we used to hitchhike down to to london watch everton at spurs, right? but we didn't feel frightened or we never told our parents we were doing it. we told our parents we were getting the train, you know? yeah, but we did it all the time to save the money. >> film about the american hitchhiker and the hitchhikers talking to the driver, and he says, you know, god, it's really kind of you to pick me up. you know, i might have been a serial killer. and the driver says, what's the odds on there being two serial killers in the same car? >> oh, i can't remember. >> oh, i can't remember. >> i can't remember what that film was, but it's quite scary. i like it, just one. >> to finish on a fairly serious story, let's talk about the powers that the unions have now. yeah under the new labour government. i mean, who'd have thought? >> yeah. well, what gets me about this is look, we always

knew that angela rayner wanted to push for, you know, stronger union powers, more red tape, more protection of the worker . more protection of the worker. the paragraph in this story, which frightens me to death is to encourage unions to start operating in the private sector. that's what terrifies me to death, because the private sector generates all the wealth in this country, which governments then take in taxes and waste. if you start attacking the private sector by saying you've got to have union representation . i worked in representation. i worked in birmingham in the 70s and saw the motor industry wrecked by the motor industry wrecked by the introduction of unions . dawn the introduction of unions. dawn and i worked in the newspaper industry in the 80s and saw it wrecked by the unions , getting wrecked by the unions, getting into good private businesses and turning them to dust. absolutely. >> to dust. all the evidence is that if you've actually got a contented workforce, they're actually more they produce more. the most unionised workforce in europe is the german car manufacturers. you know, they are completely unionised. aj

metal represents all of them, and they happen to be pretty damned efficient at it. yeah, i think i have to say, when i read that the transport salaried staffs association is asking for 38 days off holiday a year, i thought , 38 days off holiday a year, i thought, yeah, that is actually taking the mic a little bit. yeah, but i'm in favour of having a proper contented workforce. and if it takes a union to do that, because there are i don't agree, the unions in this country are excessively left wing. >> they're excessively political. do you not agree that the british motor industry was destroyed by red robbo and the communist union barons? well, it's destroyed pretty much by japan and south korea. >> sorry. the japanese and south koreans, but that's because it didn't work in this country because of labour restrictions and people going out on strike all the time. >> they were always out on strike. they could go out and strike. they could go out and strike if they went to the canteen, and the table had been moved two feet to the right. it was ludicrous. and that's the sort of thing that will happen again. believe me, i know that relationship between the worker and the massive transnational corporations, because we're getting small and medium sized businesses are closing on record

levels in every country around the world. >> it's not just here. whilst the massive behemoths of business get bigger and bigger, i am inclined now to think we're going to need unions more, but you have to have somebody to actually level the playing field. >> somebody has actually got to speak up for the workforce in this particular case, because when you get people make a decision in san francisco or california and jobs disappear on the other side of the world, somebody has actually got to have some sort of strength and strength. >> i'm talking about small businesses. i'm talking about small and medium businesses. my mate used to get them all closed down. no no, my mate gets up at 4:30 every morning and makes 3000 sandwiches, which are then distributed around town for 3000. well, not ham sandwiches, no no no. with his workforce . no no no. with his workforce. right. and a lot of them are people who've come from overseas . people who've come from overseas. everything was going fine until somebody from a union arrived and started recruiting his workers into the union. and ever since, they've started asking for different and more beneficial conditions in the workplace . workplace. >> is that bad? >> is that bad?

>> it's very bad if it stops production of sandwiches, which it does in his case. >> i think the problem here is when you're talking about big corporations running the world and running things, unions become big corporations because they're run by human beings, and power creates well, unions are very powerful in america, aren't they? >> america is supposed to be the land of the free. and yet the unions run all sorts of industries. their waste collection. >> there's only three unions in america, you know, the teachers, the teamsters and the dockers. i mean, yeah, it's not that many. >> well, no, but the teamsters themselves control a lot of the work that goes into local authorities. >> but don't forget, a lot of american states have no union rules. they have what we call red dog rules, where there's nobody's allowed to be in union. >> i think this debate actually about big business and the workers is almost going to be the defining characteristic of the defining characteristic of the next ten years with al , the next ten years with al, particularly getting rid of so many jobs , traditional many jobs, traditional workforce. what are we going to do with our workforce? what are we going to do? people who want to work and don't have a job for them. so all right, gentlemen, thank you very much. >> how much did the pig weigh ?

>> how much did the pig weigh? >> how much did the pig weigh? >> pound. we've not got. we're going to get to the. do you want to have a quick guess in about 15 minutes. just give a quick guess. how much does a pig w . e|gh? weigh? >> 40 kilos. >> 40 kilos. >> no, no, much much more. that pig >> no, no, much much more. that pig will weigh 120 kilos. >> right. so that's it. you put your hat in the ring with that one fella? >> how many ham sandwiches could you make out? >> i knew you were going to do that one. >> sandwiches. can you make out of that? here's tatiana sanchez with your news headlines. >> beth, thank you and good morning. the top stories a team of four british inspectors from the marine accident investigation branch have arrived in sicily, where they're expected to look at the site of the sinking yacht as the search for six people now enters a third day, they're expected to carry out preliminary assessment of the site today. the maib is looking into what happened because it's understood the vessel was flying a british flag. the italian coastguard hasn't ruled out the possibility that those missing, including technology tycoon mike lynch and

his 18 year old daughter hannah, may still be alive, with experts suggesting air pockets could have formed as the yacht sank. new video was released yesterday showing the moment the superyacht disappeared from view dunng superyacht disappeared from view during the storm. the home office has outlined plans to tackle illegal immigration, including deploying 100 new intelligence officers to target people smuggling gangs. the home secretary has announced the new measures to boost britain's security and to target, dismantle and disrupt organised immigration crime networks . immigration crime networks. yvette cooper has also outlined the government has new plans for the government has new plans for the next six months to achieve the next six months to achieve the highest rate of removals of those who don't have the right to be in the uk, including failed asylum seekers. as part of its plan, the government says it will reopen immigration removal centres in hampshire and oxfordshire, adding 290 beds. official figures show the rising cost of public services and benefits caused government borrowing last month to surge on the year before borrowing hit

£3.1 billion last month, around £1.8 £3.1 billion last month, around £18 billion more than in july £1.8 billion more than in july last year . the increase means last year. the increase means borrowing has hit its highest level for the month since 2021. the ons also revealed the uk's national debt remained at its highest level since the early 1960s, and romanian police have raided the home of internet personality andrew tate as part of a new investigation into crimes including human trafficking and money laundering. andrew tate has been accused of having formed an organised criminal network in early 2021, in romania and in britain. along with his brother tristan. they have both denied the charges and a trial date hasn't yet been set. prosecutors allege that 37 year old tate, his 36 year old brother and two women set up a criminal organisation and sexually exploited several victims. and those are the latest gb news headlines. for now, i'm tatiana sanchez. more from me in half an

hour for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code , or go to the qr code, or go to gbnews.com. >> forward slash alerts . >> forward slash alerts. >> forward slash alerts. >> emily and patrick are here with us in the studio. we're discussing this conversation about whether you would be allowed to go interrailing at 15. would you to have been allowed to go into railing? >> i was barely allowed to go to a house party. i certainly would not have been allowed to go into railing, although i did do a trip to berlin on my own, where i stayed with a family, and then the family disappeared. and i didn't tell my mum that actually i was there all on my own. >> where did the family go? >> where did the family go? >> they just went on a little trip and left you at home alone. >> you just couldn't stand it. right. we're going now. live here. we've got to get out of here. >> no, mum, if you're listening, i'm sorry. yeah. >> no, i wouldn't have been allowed to go because i would have died. and that's the right decision to not let me. to not let me do that. so i can barely make myself go to the shops as

it is now without. but that's the problem. >> maybe you've been allowed to go into railing. you would be much more of a rounded adult human males. patrick. >> i'd have ended up saying about patrick. actually, i'd have ended up in slovenia somewhere begging for food. but this is a different character building stuff. >> in my opinion. >> in my opinion. >> this is the difference between our generation, which is not that much older than you and we were allowed to get up to all sorts and go and spill, no, right. okay. you have lots of boyfriends. >> lots of lovely boyfriends. >> lots of lovely boyfriends. >> oh , that's a nice thing. >> oh, that's a nice thing. >> oh, that's a nice thing. >> i'm not sure that's what she meant. >> tell me about this. german family left you home alone. i can't think possibly why they would have done that, young lady, if i was such a horror. >> i was such a horror. so i did not mean to embarrass you like that. >> what will the virtuous emily carver be talking about this afternoon? >> you're going to be talking about that a little bit, but particularly with the fact that so many students, so many young people, seem to be skipping their exams because of anxiety. what is going on here? do they actually have real traumatic anxiety? the same issue saying they've got no resilience. >> they've never been allowed any freedom. exactly. >> maybe it's that. we'll obviously be touching on the immigration stuff as well as yvette cooper just lying to us. where's she going to be

deporting these people to? what conditions are these people going to be kept in? the beautiful thing about this now is the far left have got hold of it and said that yvette cooper is now basically a member of the far right, which obviously isn't, by the way. and for actually wanting to do something about immigration. so we'll have to talk about that. and there's been a breakthrough, quite literally in the yacht. yes. >> we're hearing that divers have now broken into the boat, broken the glass entered the hull. so it looks as though there's quite a lot of progress going on there in the rescue operation. the search and rescue operation. the search and rescue operation. there also lots of experts questioning whether the yacht's radar coverage was sufficient, whether something's gone wrong there and could there potentially be some prosecutions here? some talk of that, some talk of that? i mean, hopefully not, but who knows. >> just quickly as well. nadine dorries has spoken out again about lucy letby. okay. and we are going to have a discussion about what's going on there. so the cps recently came out and said there might have been an error when it came to the tracking of the nurses on the wards, etc. there's a few people now, high profile people who are

raising questions about lucy letby, so we're going to have a chat about it. i'm not entirely sure what's going on there, so we'll talk to someone who knows more. i've always thought that that was not the right result of that was not the right result of that court case. goodness me. i don't know, i don't know enough about it. i think we'll find out. >> there's a lot of circumstantial evidence. >> yeah, very, very a lot of very complicated evidence. but meanwhile, on a more serious note, guess the weight of the pig- note, guess the weight of the pig. you've seen the picture of the pig. come on. how much do you reckon it weighs? >> wow. 22 stone. here's the. come on. >> where's the. where's the pig ? >> where's the. where's the pig? that's a picture of me and beverley. that's. >> unfortunately, we don't have anything nearby to give you the scale of it, but i'm guessing if that's a little plant next next to it. how tall do you reckon it is? 50cm from the ground. maybe not quite. >> maybe it's only about 12 stone. it's not that big, is it? yeah. >> i mean, i'm trying to weigh it up between what i look like a couple of years ago, and that i'm going to say that might be about about. yeah, about 11 stone. no i mean, i'm going to say one and a half stone. >> yeah. maybe even a guinea

pig- >> yeah. maybe even a guinea pig. little skinny pig. yeah. right. tutor will be here, though , in 20 minutes or so. though, in 20 minutes or so. don't go anywhere. this is britain's newsroom. we've got to stay here to find out how much the pig weighs. don't go anywhere. >> go

>> welcome back to britain's newsroom. so the government is urging those at risk of losing their winter fuel payments to checkif their winter fuel payments to check if they're eligible for pension credit. >> it could reportedly help an estimated 800,000 low income pensioners boost their bank account by almost £4,000. >> we're joined by our reporter ray addison. so ray just explain this to us. so there must be a significant number of pensioners out there who just don't claim what they might be owed from the state, and there'll be all sorts of reasons for that, not least pride for the older generation, who may have never claimed a pennyin who may have never claimed a penny in benefits. so the government encouraging them to come forward now and claim this .

come forward now and claim this. >> yeah, absolutely. well, mps seem to be very actively trying to get people now to find out what they are owed. and it's not just pensioners as well. all of us can go online and check through the government websites. what we may or may not be eligible for. you can also go down to citizen's advice bureau as well, and often people are owed money, which they simply are completely unaware of or able to claim money which which they're unaware of. and so the push now is for pensioners to really go and find out if they could be finding out or gaining more money for themselves, particularly with this announcement from labour. crawley is a town of around 120,000 people, around 13% of those are of pensionable age. i've been speaking to people here on the high street, can't find a single person in support of this scheme, regardless of the age of the person that i talk to. people say it's really

disgusting. in fact, one person came up to me who is a carer, and she says that the people that she's been caring for for, many years now are really, really struggling. and this is like a hammer blow for them. you've got to remember this is a was a conservative constituency for the last 14 years. it went to labour in the last election . to labour in the last election. and some labour voters i'm speaking to here are saying that they feel really let down. let's hear from the people of crawley . hear from the people of crawley. >> i've got friends that are struggling anyway . so without struggling anyway. so without that winter fuel payment, they're going to be really troubled. >> it's such a fine line of approximately £20 or so between getting it and not getting it. and i think a lot of people are going to struggle that are very much on that borderline. and doctors a big rise given the railway workers a big rise and they're taking the money off of us. us. >> us. >> and i think that's disgusting by the sounds of it. >> i'm going to get no payment. this year, which i'm very deflated about because , you deflated about because, you know, we're the people they should be helping . should be helping. >> well, many pensioners that

i'm speaking here to here today in crawley, telling me that they are already struggling and this will only make things worse for them. they expect to go back into debt. they tell me they're urging the government to look at the tax credit limit. of course, if you're on that border by five, ten, £20, you are going to lose out where really you could do with that extra money and they think it's disgusting . i've they think it's disgusting. i've been told where other people are getting , salary increases, pay getting, salary increases, pay rises such as doctors and those who work in the rail industry. thank you very much. >> ray ray addison there. you know, i can't imagine this is easy for the elderly to go on and find it. >> really, this is the problem with this. there are 850,000 eligible pensioners who do not claim, okay, some of them are too proud. they don't. they don't want to. some of them don't want to. some of them don't understand what they're entitled to. and some of them do understand and have tried bev. and it is so complicated. you know, my father in law coming up to 90, it's like you go online, they send a code to your phone.

pensioners aren't up to date with that technology . they just with that technology. they just give up in the end. and they're also the generation that don't complain. yeah, absolutely. >> no it's not right. and this ethos towards go online and see what you can claim, see what you can get from the state. it's really not easy. no. right. up next we're going to reveal how much this pig weighs. it is called a babirusa is the breed of pig. apparently it's found in the indonesian islands, but not today. it's at whipsnade zoo and we're going to be there in just a moment. send your guesses. this is britain's newsroom

gb news. right. it's weigh in. day at whipsnade zoo . what do you mean whipsnade zoo. what do you mean you don't know what i'm talking about? everybody knows it's the day of the year when they have to weigh all the animals to see how healthy they are. will hollis is there and will, we've been asking our viewers and

listeners this morning to send in their guesses for the weight of the pig. we think it's a babirusa. what else do we know about our little friend ? about our little friend? >> yes, well, it's kind of like a village fair where they have a cake and you guess the weight of the cake and you get to take it home. unfortunately, you don't get to take home the babirusa pig, get to take home the babirusa pig, which is an endangered species, but calls whipsnade zoo here in bedfordshire. it's home as long as as well as around 10,000 other animals. if you were to find this animal in the wild, you would have to go to indonesia, where it's endangered because of poaching as well as habitat loss. some of the things that you'll notice about it if you're watching on tv is those little tusks. and that's something that some people find desirable, as well as poachers poaching the animal for meat. i'm here to tell us a little bit more as the weigh in goes on, and we can see exactly how much it weighs in. just a moment, is stefan . stefan. you're one of stefan. stefan. you're one of the keepers here. stefan. a big

day. what's going on here at whipsnade? yeah. >> so today's a big day. it's the annual weigh in for all the animals in whipsnade zoo. so it's weighing and measuring, but it's weighing and measuring, but it doesn't just happen today. we actually do this all year long because we need to make sure the animals are healthy. and one of the ways that we can measure thatis the ways that we can measure that is make sure that their weights are the right weight for the animals. so we don't want them to be overweight, and we don't want them to be underweight at the same time. >> and you share this data with zoos around the world for conservation efforts. what will that data tell you and how can it help other zoos , but also the it help other zoos, but also the work that you do in the wild? >> yeah. so all this data goes on a computer system called zims. and we share that, like you said, with other zoos and conservationists. so what it doesis conservationists. so what it does is that when we breed with our animals as well, you start to find out what are healthy weights, what are weights that animals are thriving in, because that's very important to know. well, there might not be breeding, does it? because they're not having the right weight or body condition. what's

going on? so all the data is important for us to share with other people. >> there are thousands of animals here, not just babirusa pigs, animals here, not just babirusa pigs, but giraffes and aardvarks. there's also thousands of visitors because it's the school holidays. what's happening right now in terms of people coming in here, and how important is it for them to be here? >> yeah. so at the moment in some holidays we get 5 or 6000 people in a day. and the importance of these people being here is one that they have a good day. you know , that's good day. you know, that's important for the people themselves, but for us as well, to get our messages across about all the conservation work we're doing and that when they're coming to visit us, their money that they're paying to come into the zoo is making a massive difference for the animals out in the wild. now, zsl spending huge amounts of money on conservation and field work with with all our teams out there. and i'd like to remember always the general too public as well, is that you see us working on site here with our animals, but we've actually got probably a lot more people working out in asia, africa, south america and all over the world working with endangered species and protecting them out there .

protecting them out there. >> stefan, the big thing that people watching at home because they've been guessing all morning, want to know is the weight of the pig. so just one last chance to take a look. bev. and dawn, would you like to take a guess as to how much you think this babirusa from indonesian pig might be? and then we'll find out. >> well, now we've seen it with some perspective. we're up. we're rounding up our guesses. i can't lie. will, what have our audience been saying? well paul reckons 47kg adrian, nine stone sorry mixed here wendy says 14 stone d says 12 to 13 stone dv h says 32kg. i'm going to go. i'm going to looking at that. that's quite a beast. you wouldn't want to wrestle that, would you? i'm going to go for 12 stone of pig. doesit going to go for 12 stone of pig. does it have a name? will >> and i'm told that this pig has the fantastic name of rico. there is another pig nearby. >> what's his name? sorry. >> what's his name? sorry. >> say that again. we missed that in the paddock today. what's his name? >> rico .

>> rico. >> rico. >> rico. >> well, i'm going to go. rico. rico. about 14 stone. >> about 14 stone. can i have a guessin >> about 14 stone. can i have a guess in kilograms, please? kilograms. >> okay, well , what is it? >> okay, well, what is it? >> okay, well, what is it? >> well, give us the answer . >> well, give us the answer. >> well, give us the answer. >> well, give us the answer. >> well, let's find out from . >> well, let's find out from. from stefan. stefan. how much does rico the pig weigh? >> he actually weighs 57 kilos at the moment. >> 57 kilos. so we'll guess that's about 6 or 7 stone. >> no, it's nine stone. 8.97. >> no, it's nine stone. 8.97. >> rico the pig. >> rico the pig. >> okay , fantastic. well, thank >> okay, fantastic. well, thank you so much, rico. the babirusa there at whipsnade weighs 57kg, which is pretty much nine stone. >> thank you all for entering and thank you for watching. this has been britain's newsroom, but don't go too far. good afternoon britain with patrick and emily coming up right now. >> yes. loads to go at so yvette cooper promising to get tough on illegal migration. do you believe it? there's also been a major update when it comes to the riots and a pakistani journalist has now been charged

with cyber terrorism for supposedly helping to whip up the hey, it's a big development. i think it is a big development. >> we're going to get stuck into that. and also, why are so many children skipping exams? because of anxiety? do they need to toughen up ? is this bad toughen up? is this bad parenting or is there something more sinister going on? we're going to get stuck into so many other stories as well, so stick with us. 12 three good afternoon britain . britain. >> looks like things are heating up. boxt boilers sponsors of weather on . gb news. weather on. gb news. >> hello. very good morning to you. time for the latest forecast from the met office for gb news. fine at first today for many of us. but it is going to turn increasingly wet from the west . wettest in western west. wettest in western scotland in fact, from mid—morning that persistent rain already setting in across western scotland starting to cloud over with outbreaks of rain moving into northern ireland by lunchtime and some spits and spots of rain across

western england as well as wales generally clouding over through the midlands, the south and southeast, but staying dry here and relatively warm 2122 celsius or so, where further north and northwest it's going to feel decidedly cool as the wind picks up and the rain sets in. and in fact, it's going to turn even wetter and windier into the evening with the most persistent and heaviest rain arriving by this stage. and as you can see, a marked contrast between western scotland, where it's going to be thoroughly soggy, and eastern scotland, where we've got some good rain shadow and so much drier here, northern ireland seeing outbreaks of rain as well. but we're also going to see some very wet weather arriving into cumbria and southwest scotland by this stage. wales some light showers but to the south and southeast of england mostly dry now. overnight that heavy rain continues to mount up across the hills of western scotland , hills of western scotland, widely 50mm or so, and for some of the wettest spots mull, skye, west highland , argyll, west highland, argyll, especially over higher ground, there's the risk of 100 to 150mm. that could cause some

localised flooding. so a rain warning in force very wet as we start the day across the north—west and increasingly windy as well. 50 to 60 mile per hour wind gusts moving through western scotland and then into the irish sea coastal area , as the irish sea coastal area, as well as gales over western and northern hills. so very unsettled, much less unsettled for the south—east, where still thursday morning staying dry with some sunshine early on, although some light rain will move south by the end of the day. not much at all. it tends to fizzle out by this stage. showers returning to the north—west. much cooler later on. >> that warm feeling inside from boxt boilers . sponsors of boxt boilers. sponsors of weather on

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